Tuesday
Heavenly StemYang Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 庚 – Yang Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 庚申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 庚申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityBalance Day
平 – Balance Day. The traditional name means: levelling, balance.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Monkey and the month is Snake; their relationship produces this officer.
This is a general traditional quality. Read the Suggested and Avoid lists for individual activities; the name does not promise success.
Traditional recommendations
Translations of the traditional entries. Enable Chinese originals to compare.
Suitable For
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Marriage嫁娶
Avoid
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Laying foundations起基
- Relocation移徙
- Opening a business开市
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
